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The New York Times makes Oklahoma City sound like Denver without the Rocky Mountains - and credits oil with fueling the city's recent economic resurgence. I haven't been to or through OKC in more than a decade, but it sure sounds like it's made a lot of progress [...]
He’s not daddy the baby daddy, he did not love her, but he did have sex with that woman.
What Edwards did is between he, his family, and his mistress; and I can’t really pretend to be indignant that he lied about this affair, or went into the [...]
25 Reasons You May be a Racist
Peter Kirsanow
The tendency of Obama supporters to see racist impulses behind every criticism of their candidate has evolved into absurdity. Now even the first black president feels compelled to declare he’s not a racist. By this measure, nearly every American is at [...]
Chris Davis describes the scene from the “victory” party of defeated congressional candidate Nikki Tinker:
It’s tempting do describe the mood at Ground Zero as grim from the git-go. But it wasn’t grim. It was much worse than that. The mood was nonexistent. For most of the evening there [...]
The Hill reports on the First District Congressional primary which may not be officially over until August 18:
Davis spent time earlier in the week at the U.S. Capitol, taking part in the Republican Party’s protests over the Democrats’ refusal to vote on offshore drilling.
University of Vanderbilt profession Bruce Oppenheimer [...]
John Edwards admits an affair but says he did not love the woman and did not father her baby:
John Edwards repeatedly lied during his Presidential campaign about an extramarital affair with a novice filmmaker, the former Senator admitted to ABC News today.
In an interview for broadcast tonight on Nightline, [...]
Edwards admits affair with campaign filmmaker, but says he did not father her baby. Says it happened in 2006 and his wife and family knew about it.
read moreWASHINGTON - Pilots are complaining that their airline bosses, desperate to cut costs, are forcing them to fly uncomfortably low on fuel.
Safety for passengers and crews could be compromised, they say.
The situation got bad enough three years ago, even before the latest surge in fuel [...]
Bob Tuke celebrates his win with a fundraising pitch:
Last night, I stood in front of a room of supporters and celebrated our victory in the Tennessee Democratic Primary for U.S. Senate. But it wasn’t just my victory-it was your victory. It was your hard work that made this happen.
This [...]
The surprise second place showing by Gary Davis in the Democratic Primary continues to puzzle political observers. From the Tennessee Journal:
We haven’t figured out yet how Gary G. Davis managed to finish second in the Democratic U.S. senatorial primary and beat Bob Tuke badly in Hamilton County. People may [...]
The Knoxville News Sentinel thoroughly misrepresents one of state Rep. Stacey Campfield's legislative proposals in its story on his Republican Primary win:
Campfield passed no bills during the General Assembly's last session but has earned a reputation over the years for stirring up controversy with some of his proposals for [...]
According to Nashville-based evangelical leader, Richard Land, the Alaska Governor make a great Vice-President:
Probably Governor Palin of Alaska, because she’s a person of strong faith. She just had her fifth child, a Downs Syndrome child. And there’s a wonderful quote that she gave about her baby, and the fact [...]
Russ McBee: The people of Knox County have demonstrated a distressingly short attention span and an apparently high tolerance for corrupt back-room deals among elected officials.
[...]
More folks are talking about Gangsta’ Lil’ Bobbie Benjamins aka Senator Bob Corker. In a piece in the Wall Street Journal today, Kimberly Strassel points out the problems with the Gangland Plan. And today on his program, El Rushbo, Limbaugh himself, blasted the 5 [...]
…or not:
Gov. Phil Bredesen says he expects to approve about 1,500 voluntary buyout applications from state employees.
That’s well short of the 2,300 the state had originally hoped for. But the governor also said a larger than expected number of more experienced and higher paid workers have applied for the [...]
SNEEDVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Angela Tuttle has been elected constable in Hancock County by a single vote -- her own.
[...]A new liberal group is trying to silence conservatives through intimidation.
[...]Members of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) and Tyson Foods workers at the poultry processing plant in Shelbyville overwhelmingly voted to overturn a union contract that replaced Labor Day as a paid holiday with the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr, it was announced this morning.
The [...]
Congressional Quarterly releases its forecast for Tennessee:
Ed Cromer, editor of The Tennessee Journal, said evangelical voters in particular expressed reservations about McCain’s stances on some social issues, thinking him “too liberal.” But he believes Republicans quickly coalesced behind McCain after he secured the nomination. “Right now it would appear [...]
Or run ads saying you wouldn't use the office "to fulfill my sexual fantasies". The guy lost 71 percent to 29 percent.
[...]H/T: Sean Hackbarth via Twitter
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